Back in August, I asked why Apple was persisting with its iPhone Developer NDA. I said that they’d have to drop it, because it was actively causing harm to iPhone developers, and thus to iPhone customers. Responders in the comments told me that I didn’t understand Apple, or its priorities; and that it wasn’t an [...]
Seems like we’re likely to be days weeks away from the first publicly available download for Sun Microsystems’s new Enterprise-class virtualization system, xVM Server. A lot of people have been waiting for this. xVM Server will form an important part of Sun’s software stack.
Over the last few years, Sun has been pulling together a genuinely [...]
An iPhone TV advertisement has just been banned in the UK. At issue was Apple’s claim that iPhone can access “all parts of the Internet”. The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints that pointed out that this was not true, because iPhone cannot view web-sites that incorporate applets running under technologies such as Flash [...]
Apple is a phenomenally successful company. With a market cap of $155B, the public markets value it about the same as Google, and about three times the value of Dell. Sometimes, though, you have to think that Apple succeeds in spite of itself. When Apple launched iPhone, it was obvious that the upfront costs of [...]
Which has the greater mind-share among developers - Apple’s iPhone or RIM’s Blackberry? It’s not a difficult question to answer. I think we can safely say that, today, it’s the iPhone. That wasn’t always the case though - the Blackberry platform has been around for years longer than the iPhone. It’s clear, though, that RIM [...]
Apple’s new MobileMe sync software is giving people some big problems. Big enough problems that they’re quitting using the service. For example, see what Robert Scoble has to say in his post - Warning: your calendar is in danger with Apple’s Mobile Me. I know a lot of people are disappointed, but the [...]
Yesterday, in a “break” from a lovely weekend filled with work (oh joy!), I decided to see if I could find an answer to a question about JavaFX that I’ve been wondering about for a while. What was the question? It’s this: will JavaFX be able to compete with Flash when it comes to rich [...]
Today, a technology preview SDK for Sun’ s all-new RIA platform, JavaFX, was released into the wild. It’s been just over a year in the making. I was one of the first people to blog about JavaFX - my first blogs (here, and here) were on 8 May 2007, when JavaFX was publicly announced. Since [...]
The release of the JavaFX preview SDK is now imminent. Update: The JavaFX Preview SDK has now been released. So - what’s in the preview release, and what will people have to wait for until the full release? One of the big pieces of information is that there will be no support [...]
It looks as if Sun will be releasing the first technology preview of the all-new JavaFX SDK in about two weeks - that is, at the end of the month. That includes: a new language (JavaFX Script); a new compiler; a new underlying Java hardware-accelerated 2-D and 3-D graphics stack; (hopefully) new audio and video [...]